Keyper Raises $11 Million To Expand UAE Monthly Rent Payments
Keyper raised an $11 million Series A led by Speedinvest to expand monthly rent payments and landlord financing products in the UAE. The company said it has financed more than $44 million in rent value, while pricing, financing terms and named institutional landlord customers remain outside the public record.
Keyper is adding new venture funding to a UAE rental-payments platform that lets tenants turn annual rent obligations into monthly digital payments while landlords receive rent income upfront.
The company raised an $11 million Series A led by Speedinvest, with NeoVentures, Dubai Future District Fund, MEVP, Property Finder, Arab National Bank, Ellington Properties, Dar Ventures and Abbey Road Investment Group among the named participants.
The round follows a previously announced $30 million Sukuk financing agreement with Franklin Templeton.
Series A Funding Targets Monthly Rent Products
The new capital is intended to expand the monthly rent payment platform, accelerate adoption among institutional landlords and large residential portfolios, and introduce financing and liquidity products for property owners.
Founded in 2022 by Omar Abu Innab and Walid Al Saqqaf, the UAE proptech platform combines rent payments, property-management technology and embedded financial services for tenants, landlords and property managers.
Tenants can convert traditional annual rental payments into monthly digital payments.
Landlords can receive upfront rental income through the platform, placing the product between rent collection, financing and property-management workflows.
UAE Rental Payments Remain The Core Market
Strategic partnership agreements named in the company material include Dubai Land Department, Abu Dhabi Advanced Real Estate Services, Property Finder, Visa, Mashreq and others for rental-payment digitisation products across the UAE.
The platform has financed more than $44 million in rent value since launch, including $19 million in 2026 year-to-date.
It also supports more than 10,500 properties valued at over $6 billion, serves 4,000 landlords and has surpassed 100,000 app downloads.
Those figures are operating metrics rather than audited adoption data.
Landlord names behind the large residential portfolios, tenant-default performance and financing costs for monthly rent conversion remain outside the public record.
Investors Point To Cheque-Based Rent Flows
Rana Abdel Latif, partner at Speedinvest, said the investment case centred on the founding team and the mismatch between how tenants earn and how rent is paid.
She said the platform brings together payments, financing and property management.
Amith Rajan, executive vice-president and head of wholesale digital banking at Mashreq and chief executive of NeoVentures, said the investment starts a strategic partnership intended to combine the startup's solutions with Mashreq's scale and capabilities.
Nader AlBastaki, managing director of Dubai Future District Fund, linked flexible rent payments to Dubai's D33 ambition of making the city attractive to global talent.
Khalid S. Alghamdi, chief executive of ANB Capital, said Dubai registered over AED100 billion in tenancy contracts last year, while most rent is still paid through a handful of post-dated cheques.
The public record still lacks pricing for tenants or landlords, Sukuk financing terms, named institutional landlord customers, tenant-default rates or any launch timetable outside the UAE.
